Patrick Nunn (composer)

Patrick Nunn (b.1969, Kent, UK) studied composition with Frank Denyer
at Dartington College of Arts, Gary Carpenter at the Welsh College of
Music and Drama, and Simon Bainbridge and Jonathan Harvey whilst
completing his PhD in composition at the Royal Academy of Music
(funded by a PRS Scholarship).

Nunn has been the recipient of many awards, including the Birmingham
New Millennium prize for Sentiment of an Invisible Omniscience
(2010), the Alan Bush prize for Transilient Fragments
(2008), a British Composers Award (solo/duet category) for Mercurial
Sparks, Volatile Shadows (2006), and the BBC Radio 3 Composing
for Children prize for Songs of Our Generation (1995). His
work Pareidolia I for bass clarinet, electronics and sensors
(Sonic Arts category, 2012) was the most recent of seven shortlisted
works for the British Composers Awards.

Nunn’s music has been performed widely in the UK and on the continent
and has featured at more than fifty festivals worldwide, most recently
at IRCAM in Paris. He has worked with a diverse range of
collaborators, including the BBC Concert Orchestra, Bellowhead and the
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, the Kreutzer Quartet,
Icebreaker, Thalia Myers, Mark Simpson, Zubin Kanga, Piano Circus,
Ballet Rambert, the Gogmagogs, the New London Children’s Choir and the
Tempest Flute Trio.

Under the auspices of Tod Machover (MIT), Nunn, in his role as
Hyperbow Researcher at the Royal Academy of Music, wrote two new works
incorporating Diana Young’s (MIT) Hyperbow design: Gaia Sketches
for solo cello and live electronics (finalist in the New Media
category, British Composers Awards 2006); and Fata Morgana
for cello, ensemble and live electronics, which featured as part of
the concluding Electronica concert series with the BBC Concert
Orchestra in 2011. Nunn’s collaborative process between composer and
engineer was presented in a research paper alongside Young at the 2006
NIME conference at IRCAM. His recent collaboration, Morphosis
with Zubin Kanga, incorporated 3D sensors on the pianist’s hands and
was presented at the 2015 ‘Inventing Gestures’ symposium as part of
IRCAM’s Manifeste Festival.

As part of his extensive work as an educator, Nunn currently holds
the position of Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music.
His music is published by Cadenza Music and the ABRSM, and features on
21st Century Bow (Royal Academy of Music), Music of the
Spheres (Red Sock Records), Gonk (sfz Music) and Prism
(NMC).

Thalia Myers (piano)

Thalia Myers is active as pianist, teacher and promoter of new music.
She has performed and broadcast as soloist and chamber musician in
over thirty countries. Her repertoire and recordings range from music
of the eighteenth century to the present; CDs include five albums of
contemporary works for solo piano. She has commissioned over a hundred
and fifty new works, including the Spectrum anthologies for piano and
the Chamber Music Exchange.

Thalia was a pupil of Cyril Smith at the Royal College of Music and
later studied with Ilona Kabos and Peter Feuchtwanger. She has given
masterclasses around the world and has overseen projects with
composition students in the U.K. at the Royal College of Music, The
Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College of Music and The Royal Welsh
College of Music and Drama.

Zubin Kanga (piano)

London-based, Australian pianist Zubin Kanga has performed at many
international festivals, including the BBC Proms (UK), Metropolis New
Music Festival (Australia), IRCAM’s Manifeste Festival (France) and
Borealis Festival (Norway), as well as appearing as soloist with the
London Sinfonietta and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Zubin has
collaborated with many of the world’s leading composers, including
Michael Finnissy, George Benjamin and Thomas Adès, and premiered over
50 new works. He is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of
Nice and IRCAM, Paris, and a Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of
Music, London.

Sarah Watts (bass clarinet)

Specialist bass clarinettist Sarah Watts studied at the Royal Academy
of Music and at the Rotterdam Conservatorium, where she was awarded
the Exxon prize. In addition to performing around the world, she
teaches bass clarinet at the Royal Northern College of Music,
Manchester, and runs courses for clarinet, bass clarinet and Wind
Chamber Music. Recently, after completing her PhD, Sarah’s innovative
research into bass clarinet multiphonics was published as a book.
Sarah is currently an artist with Vandoren UK, Uebel Clarinets
International and Silverstein. She plays Uebel Superior clarinets and
a Selmer Privilege bass clarinet.

Carla Rees (alto flute, quarter-tone alto flute)

Carla Rees is an innovative low flutes specialist and arranger. She
is Artistic Director of rarescale, Director of Tetractys Publishing
and has a PhD from the Royal College of Music in London. She teaches
the flute at Royal Holloway University and is Programme Leader for
music at the Open College of Arts. Carla plays Kingma System flutes,
and has had several hundred works written for her to date. She
performs as recitalist and chamber musician, writes articles and
reviews for several of the world’s flute maga- zines and has recorded
for Atopos, Metier, Capstone and rarescale records. She is regularly
broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and has performed on incidental music for BBC
Radio 4, as well as on short films and feature films. She also works
as a professional photographer.

Rosanna Ter-Berg (piccolo)

Rosanna Ter-Berg studied at Trinity College of Music with Anna
Noakes, gaining first prize in both the ESO soloist and British Flute
Society Competitions. In 2012, Rosanna won the Philip and Dorothy
Green Award for Young Concert Artists from Making Music, and is
currently an artist for the Park Lane Group, The Countess of Munster
Recital Scheme, Live Music Now, a Tunnell Trust winner and a recording
artist for the ABRSM’s 2014–17 flute syllabus. Rosanna enjoys a varied
musical career as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician, educator
and improviser. She also plays South American music with the group A
Oca. She has performed across the UK and Europe in major concert
venues and festivals. She enjoys collaborating with composers and
blurring boundaries across the arts with dancers, actors and artists.

Arek Adamczyk (bassoon)

Arek Adamczyk studied the bassoon at the Chopin Academy of Music in
Warsaw with Bogumil Gadawski and, after winning several competitions
in Poland, moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music with
Andrea di Flammineis and Martin Gatt. Since his studies, he has been a
freelance orchestral bassoonist with several major British and Polish
orchestras. As a soloist Arek has performed with a number of
orchestras, including Southbank Sinfonia, Zabrzanska Filharmonia,
Lodzka Filharmonia and the Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra Amadeus. In
2013, he completed his PhD on British contemporary bassoon music. Arek
also holds the position of bassoon professor at the Paderewski Music
Academy, Poznań. He plays a #7244 Jubilee Edition Heckel bassoon.

Matthew Schellhorn (piano)

Matthew Schellhorn studied in Man- chester and Cambridge. His
teachers included Peter Hill and Yvonne Loriod- Messiaen. He has given
recitals in many major venues throughout the UK, including Wigmore
Hall and the Purcell Room. He has been guest soloist at several
international festivals and has performed live on BBC Radio 3 and
Radio France. He is a prominent performer of new music and has given
numerous world and territorial premieres. Commissions include a
collection of studies by Nicola LeFanu and six miniatures by Tim
Watts, Michael Zev Gordon, Cecilia McDowall, Cheryl Frances-Hoad,
Colin Riley and Jeremy Thurlow. In 2012, he gave the world premiere of
Ian Wilson’s Flags and Emblems in the Belfast Festival with the Ulster
Orchestra. In 2014, Diatribe Records released Matthew Schellhorn's
solo disc, Ian Wilson: Stations, the world premiere
recording of a new commission by Irish composer Ian Wilson.

Sarah Mason (percussion)

Welsh percussionist Sarah Mason has performed internationally as a
soloist in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera
House, with broadcasts from Classic FM to HTV. As an orchestral
musician, she has toured China, Russia and America with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded Howard Shore’s score for The Hobbit,
appeared on the BBC proms and was streamed live to cinemas across the
UK from the Glyndebourne Opera House. Sarah studied with a full
scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music and then went on to gain a
Fellowship in Chamber Music at the Royal College of Music, before
returning to the Royal Academy of Music as a Fellow in Music Outreach.
She has given workshops with Britten Sinfonia, Wigmore Hall,
Streetwise Opera and others. Sarah is passionate about performing new
music, and has premiered works by Philip Glass, Harrison Birtwistle
and Julian Anderson.

Maria Ołdak (violin)

Born in Poland, Maria Ołdak studied at the University of Music in
Warsaw and the Royal Academy of Music in London. In addition to
winning first prize and two further special awards at the Allegro Vivo
Competition in Austria, Maria has also been the recipient of the
audience prize at the Friends of the Academy Wigmore Award and the
prestigious Młoda Polska scholarship. An accomplished chamber
musician, soloist and orchestral player, Maria has performed with
artists such as Martha Argerich, Renée Fleming, Pinchas Zukerman,
Edgar Meyer and Pekka Kuusisto. Maria has recorded for EMI and
Deutsche Grammophon. She has also released three solo albums,
including Modern Times with pianist James Baillieu. She is
currently the Chairman of the Music Society in Poland, as well as the
Artistic Director of the music festival “W oparach dźwięków”.